Dr. Michael M. Givertz is the Medical Director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and a heart failure/transplant specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also past chair of the New England Consortium of Heart Transplant and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
He received his medical degree from HMS. He then completed an internal medicine residency program at BWH and a chief residency program in internal medicine at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Roxbury (now VA Boston Healthcare System). He completed two fellowships at BWH: one in cardiovascular disease and the other in heart failure/transplant. He is board certified in cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.
Dr. Givertz’s clinical interests include heart transplant, mechanical circulatory support, peripartum cardiomyopathy, heart failure and secondary pulmonary hypertension. His research focuses on cardiorenal interactions in acute heart failure and novel tools to assess cardiac function and guide therapy. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and received research funding from the National Institutes of Health.
